Context

• About me and my background
  • Professor of Transport Data Science at University of Leeds
  • Focus on open, reproducible transport planning tools
  • Worked in Active Travel England to build data and digital capacity
• What I’ll be talking about today: open, reproducible, internationally-scalable transport tools
• How this aligns with GREENTRAVEL project’s aims and themes

Contents

• Why open and future-proof?
• Scalable tools and case studies (UK, Portugal, international)
• Opportunities to connect with GREENTRAVEL and partners

Why open access beyond open source?

Reproducible research in practice

• Fully reproducible pipelines improve trust, reuse and scale
• Example: spanishoddata package and paper now part of rOpenSpain community

Network Planning Tool for Scotland (NPT)

• Discover and prioritise active travel networks at scale
• Open data, transparent methods, web UI for planners and the public
• Source: npt.scot

Network Planning Workspace (NPW)

• Collaborative design space for schemes, scenarios and evidence
• Bridges data science and delivery
• Source: npw.scot

International portability by design

• Shared, open building blocks (data, code, methods)
• Modular tools adapted from UK to other cities/regions
• Aligns with GREENTRAVEL’s multi-city analyses and exposure-aware routing

Opportunities to align with GREENTRAVEL

• Green routes and exposure metrics as first-class decision inputs
• Combine survey/VR insights with network analytics and open platforms
• Co-develop reproducible, comparable indicators across cities

Ideas for near-term collaboration

• ActiveCount: scalable, low-cost active travel counts

• SchoolRoutes: safer, greener routes to school

• NetGen: crowd-informed network generation; “the crowd is the territory” (Anderson et al. 2018)

How to get involved